Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore films with football genres and themes.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 360 films · Page 12.
American football film, comedy film
thumb|thumbtime=15|So This Is College (1929) Biff and Eddie, two college classmates at the University of Southern California, are life-long friends, fraternity brothers, and members of the football team. Although they make a vow at the beg…
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American football film, Romance Film, drama film, romance film, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=20|West Point (1927) Arrogant and wise-cracking Brice Wayne enrolls at the United States Military Academy at West Point and adjusts to life as a plebe. He tries out for the plebe football team, where he excels and shows up …
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American football film, Komödie, Sport
When a small town votes to disband the local football team, the Possums, a radio announcer begins announcing imaginary radio games which the Possums win causing the real state champs to challenge the Possums to a game.
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association football film, biographical film, documentary film
The film tells the story of Swedish association football player Zlatan Ibrahimović, during his formative years, through archival footage, including rare interviews with a young Ibrahimović where he speaks about his personal life and the ob…
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American football film, comedy film, musical film, sound film
Upton College President Sheffield is in serious danger of losing his job. For the last twelve years Upton has lost the annual football match against rival Parsons College. The trustees of Upton insist that Sheffield must resign if Upton fa…
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association football film
Dicky Brown is a young, aspiring footballer who plays for a struggling side, the fictional Manningford F.C., a team in the midst of a successful cup run. He manages to charm the daughter of the chairman and thus breaks into the side, and u…
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Sport, children's film, comedy drama
The plot is about the dog from the first film who has been reclaimed by his real owners and is taken to Europe to play in the championship, which he eventually wins.
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association football film, comedy film
Mr. Butler is a former pro soccer player whose reputation for partying and gambling has caught up with him. He is sentenced to a year of probation, which includes working as a handyman in a dilapidated boys' home.
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American football film, drama film
Calvert College begins taking football more seriously, over the objections of Dr. Sargeant, the president of the school. Coach Gore is brought in and given a free rein, which he uses to pay money to standout players.
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American football film, drama film
Jim Brandon, a former player for the Chicago Bears, is a returning veteran who has been paralyzed in the Vietnam War. Upon his return to his home town, he tries to get a job as a football coach, but does not get it. He comes up with the id…
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American football film, action film, crime film
Red Grange is thrown off the Clay College football team in disgrace when his friend, Buddy Courtland, takes a bribe to throw the big game and Red attacks him in anger. Red then proceeds to investigate and hunt down the head of the gambling…
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American football film, romantic comedy film
Qualifying to play in the illustrious Rose Bowl football game on New Year's Day, a Midwestern college's quarterback, Steve Davis, is less enthusiastic than expected, as playing football does not excite him, but his teammate Bronc Buttram i…
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American football film, Drama, Sport, drama film
Steve Novak, a Polish-American immigrant from a small New Jersey mill town, attends Jackson University in Virginia to play football. He becomes a star player as a freshman but hears stories of teammates receiving money for their play. Stev…
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American football film, biographical film, documentary film
association football film
It tells the story of the British betting scandal of 1964, following which a number of British professional footballers were jailed and banned from football for life for conspiring to fix the results of matches. Prominent among those gaole…
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American football film, drama film, musical film, silent film
Marty Reid is the star quarterback of Sanford College, and according to Coach Wilson, the finest backfield man the school has ever had. But Marty hates taking physical punishment and, after being knocked out by a vicious clip to the head i…
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association football film
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Chipolopolo were a very promising national football team and in the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul they surprised the world, and thrashed Italy 4-0. Following this victory, they had their eyes on winning the…
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association football film, documentary film
American football film
In the late 1960s in a small town, a police chief and his hippie son lead opposing football teams to settle their differences. The police ("Pigs") play against the hippies ("Freaks").
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American football film, drama film, silent film
The film opens on a shot of a party, then focuses in on a couple. A title card introduces the man as Jack Hamill, "... an all around athlete -- his 'approach' sure -- his 'stroke' swift, and his 'service' - perfect." Jack tells his date, M…
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American football film, documentary film
American football film
American football film, biographical film
Florence Cavanaugh and a priest, Tim Donovan, recall how in the 1890s, her husband Frank was playing college football for Dartmouth and then moved west to become a coach. "Cav" is introduced to Florence and eventually moves back east where…
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association football film